Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer misstated a key top-line statistic from a report that she referenced to tout her ambitious green energy mandate.
In her speech in Detroit, an official press release and further comments about the package, Whitmer said that the laws will create nearly 160,000 jobs by 2050 in conjunction with federal legislation, but that assertion is incorrect: the reportinforming that statistic finds that the new laws will create 158,260 job-years added, a different metric than jobs added.